On Tuesday November 3, 2015, IPA Peru, J-PAL LAC, the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Program at IPA, the Ministry of Production, the National Society of Industries of Peru (SNI) and COPEME, co-organized the Conference and Matchmaking Event "Evidence for the development of small and medium enterprises” in Lima, Peru.Lea esta página en español aquí. The event convened representatives of the public and private sector, civil society and researchers, with the aim of spreading the existing rigorous evidence on effective interventions for SMEs, and of identifying opportunities for collaboration to generate new research in this area.

On October 29th, Zahra Niazi and Pooja Wagh from IPA’s Financial Inclusion Program hosted a workshop on using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to improve financial product design at the 2015 Asia Pacific Financial Inclusion Summit.The workshop provided attendees with real-world examples of how RCTs can produce rigorous evidence to improve financial product design.